1) Look at the first page. What is colonialism - also known as cultural imperialism? The belief that native people were intellectually inferior, and that white colonisers had a moral right to subjugate the local populace as they were ‘civilising’ them: in other words, trying to make them more like Western European society. This was how they justified their actions, while all the time stealing their resources and, in some cases, people to be sold into slavery. 2) Now look at the second page. What is postcolonialism? Post-colonialism, like postmodernism, refers less to a time period and more to a critiquing of a school of thought that came before it. Post-colonialism exists to question white patriarchal views with a particular reference to how they relate to race. 3) How does Paul Gilroy suggest postcolonialism influences British culture? Suggested that Britain had not quite faced up to its colonial past, that the national psyche had not quite come to terms with no longe...